Saturday, July 4, 2009

Molu's Secret / Keeper of the Skulls

While you and your friends are blowing off body parts and digits today with Black Cats and M-80’s, here’s a couple tales about the removal of another body part—the head! A gruesome Atlas entry from Carmine Infantino kicks off THOIA'SJuly 4th festivities from the Oct ’52 issue of Suspense #23, followed by a very similar tale from the August 1952 issue of Strange Terrors #2.

REMINDER: Stay safe and have fun today, and by all means--- don’t lose your head!

Was Keeper of the Skulls ever reprinted? It looks really familiar. Anyway, I like it: not the most cohesive story, but it has that great fever-dream quality and moreover looks more like 1942 than 1952. Nothing rings in Independence Day quite like two separate sets of shrunken heads.

I know it tends to be quiet around here on holidays (even loud-ass 4th of July!) but I do appreciate everyone who stopped by and commented. And I truly mean it when I say be careful out there tonight, whether contending with dangerous explosives or big bad drunk Uncle Louie in a pair of Speedos that he should've retired 20 years ago, stay safe and have a blast!

We'll see ya next week with some Satanic shenanigans from both Atlas and Ace--- HAIL!

Real smart there Squinty, bossing around the chief of a tribewho could order his men to attack you, men who happen to have weapons while you are unarmed, I guess Squinty was so eager to learn the secret it made him lose his head in more ways than one.

"White man speaks big words!"

Did The Lone Ranger's companion, Tonto, come out with his own line of "learn to speak English" books and casettes for native tribes around the world?

Don't mind me, I'm just laughin' my head off.

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In the story "Keeper of the Skulls" is it just me, or does the character Paul look like Peter Lorrie a little?See for yourself-Page 1 top right panel and bottom right panelPage 2 first panelPage 3 bottom panel

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